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Mike Phelan has revealed the role he plays in the coaching team is ensuring everything happens in the Manchester United way.

Phelan, who was Sir Alex Ferguson's number two, returned to the club when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took charge as interim manager last month and the new look coaching team have had an instant impact winning their first six league games in charge.

While Solskjaer has rightly taken a lot of plaudits for United's unbeaten run, many have hailed the impact of Phelan and the 56-year-old has spoken about why the new coaching set up is working.

“It is working,” he told ManUtd.com. “The balance is good, the feedback is good, we get on. It’s a nice, split age range, so we’ve all got different ideas, we communicate a lot and it is quite refreshing. Ole sits there at the top of the tree, and I hover in between making sure everything happens the way I feel the way Manchester United should work.

”It takes me back a little bit into the processes we had before [under Sir Alex], which was a little bit of youth, a bit of experience, a little bit of knowledge. There’s an extra dynamic in there, that is all part of a football club.“

Ferguson's former right hand man was also full of praise for Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna who have kept their place on the coaching staff following the departure of Jose Mourinho.

“They have got some serious talent. I think Michael now is progressing really well. He’s finding his feet in the organisational side of it, and he’s got a great opinion on the game and has been an exceptional player," Phelan said.

”Kieran has been a player outside of this football club, then he has come in and coached in the Academy, so he knows the youth side of things. He’s been here a while now, he’s progressed on, and bringing all those methods he’s got to the fore now with the first team. It’s exciting and enthusiastic.“